News of the Day From Across the Nation, March 13

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Updated 11:02 pm, Wednesday, March 12, 2014

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1 Overtime pay: Millions of American workers could qualify for expanded overtime pay under a new push by President Obama to review existing Labor Department regulations, part of his strategy to use executive authority to bypass Congress and focus on middle-class economic issues. Obama plans to direct the Labor Department on Thursday to begin updating regulations aimed at preventing employers from designating lower-paid salaried workers as "managers" or "professionals" in order to make them ineligible for overtime, even though their primary responsibilities are the same as hourly workers, officials said.

2 Daughter's suit: The New Jersey honor student who sued to get her parents to support her after she moved out of their home has reunited with them. Rachel Canning's return does not involve any financial or other considerations, the lawyer for the 18-year-old's parents said Wednesday. Angelo Sarno said that the dispute had been settled "amicably," but refused to comment further. Sarno said Rachel Canning moved back in with her parents on Tuesday and said the notoriety surrounding the suit had damaged the family. A judge last week had denied the teen's request for child support and to have her parents pay her remaining high school tuition. But the judge scheduled an April court date to consider the over-arching question of whether the Cannings are obligated to financially support their adult daughter.

3 Most wanted: The FBI says agents are hunting in Hawaii for the nation's most wanted domestic terrorism suspect. The FBI office in San Francisco said Wednesday that the agency received "credible intelligence" that Daniel Andreas San Diego might be on the state's Big Island. San Diego is suspected to be an animal rights extremist. San Diego is charged with exploding pipe bombs in front of two San Francisco Bay Area companies with ties to a lab that conducted animal experiments.

4 Mega-church theft: Authorities are investigating after $600,000 in checks and cash was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston mega-church, which has one of the largest congregations in the country. Police said Tuesday $200,000 in cash and $400,000 in checks were stolen from a safe sometime between 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 8:30 a.m. Monday. The theft was reported by a church employee and an off-duty sheriff's deputy who provides security at the facility.

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5 Nobel Prize auction: A 1936 Nobel Peace Prize discovered at a South American pawn shop is heading to the auction block. The award will be only the second Nobel Peace Prize to come to auction and marked the first time an individual from Latin America had received the honor. The New York-based Stack's Bowers Galleries is offering it for sale March 27 in Baltimore. The 1936 Nobel Peace Prize recipient was Argentina's foreign minister, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, who was honored for his role in negotiating the end of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia.